March 13, 2011
It's a whole new year! Can't believe we've hit 2011. With 2011 came a new niece we like to call Jillian Marie. She was born on January 11th to Grant & Tiffany. Se was 7 pounds and was 10-11 days late. Jealous. :) So cute. Lincoln's sister is expecting a baby in June. So exciting.
Christmas was great as usual this year. New years....came and is here. This winter has been crazy with the snow. the cold and then the warmer weather has been really hard on our outdoors....the sidewalks are all a mess and I just hope that they all go back to normal during the thaw. We are expecting close to 50 this next week. Whew. The snow has been crazy this winter.
Luke just turned 9 last week. 9. Wow. He celebrated by having a ton of his friends come to the roller rink close to our place. Then our family came over this past Friday night. I love having every one over. Luke is doing really well in school. It's hard to get home to want to read, but he does it because he has to. His spelling is excellent and he is really improving on grammer and English. His math is pretty good too. This is the first year he was able to actually play basketball. Lincoln coached. His 3rd grade team played their very first games in their very first tournament against 4th graders and they ended up getting 5th place. So proud. He LOVES his basketball.
Ashlyn turned 7 in December. She celebrated by having a few of her friend over to the house and her grandma Sharon and grandpa Paul along with auntie Victoria and Josh came to help celebrate. She got an American Girl doll, Kit, for her birthday from her grandma Chris. She loves that doll! :) She is still really into drawing and coloring...crafting. She is doing pretty good in school. She needed to go to a class for extra reading help at the beginning of the year and we just got word on Friday that she can be done with that now because she is where she needs to be. Awesome. We are having some really big issues with math right now. She is supposed to be learning and have some knowledge on money, mainly coins. She just doesn't get it. It'll be some work, but eventually she'll get it. I hope. Ashlyn is in Girl Scouts this year as well. She is a Daisy. I am an assistant leader. And I would just like to vent here quick by saying that the girl scout cookie event this year was really not fun. There. I'm done. She's been enjoying it.
Chloe is growing so fast. We've been spending our Monday mornings by going to ECFE and meeting new friends. She had her preschool screening in February and is all ready to go. We signed her up for next year. She is sure she is going to ride the bus with her siblings...not yet, babe! :) She is very quiet and sweet. She is getting along a lot better with her cousins and she loves coming with me everywhere. She loves her cartoons too. I've been trying to set limits on that, but, she usually wins. She loves doing puzzles and coloring. LOVES stickers. She is also very excited that she gets to go to Sunday School in the fall. She talks about it all the time.
The farm is still going and I and still working at the church. Lincoln's basketball season is coming to an end next weekend and the Gophers...well, they are done and Lincoln is not happy about it. Not to fear though.....March madness is going to be in full swing this week. Get those brackets ready! Lincoln and I will be celebrating 10 years of marriage on June 16th. We think we are going to go somewhere...and that is as far as we have gotten with it. Obviously, it's not easy getting away when you are farmers with 3 children. Especially when those children are in school (because we won't go anywhere until next spring).
Christmas was great as usual this year. New years....came and is here. This winter has been crazy with the snow. the cold and then the warmer weather has been really hard on our outdoors....the sidewalks are all a mess and I just hope that they all go back to normal during the thaw. We are expecting close to 50 this next week. Whew. The snow has been crazy this winter.
Luke just turned 9 last week. 9. Wow. He celebrated by having a ton of his friends come to the roller rink close to our place. Then our family came over this past Friday night. I love having every one over. Luke is doing really well in school. It's hard to get home to want to read, but he does it because he has to. His spelling is excellent and he is really improving on grammer and English. His math is pretty good too. This is the first year he was able to actually play basketball. Lincoln coached. His 3rd grade team played their very first games in their very first tournament against 4th graders and they ended up getting 5th place. So proud. He LOVES his basketball.
Ashlyn turned 7 in December. She celebrated by having a few of her friend over to the house and her grandma Sharon and grandpa Paul along with auntie Victoria and Josh came to help celebrate. She got an American Girl doll, Kit, for her birthday from her grandma Chris. She loves that doll! :) She is still really into drawing and coloring...crafting. She is doing pretty good in school. She needed to go to a class for extra reading help at the beginning of the year and we just got word on Friday that she can be done with that now because she is where she needs to be. Awesome. We are having some really big issues with math right now. She is supposed to be learning and have some knowledge on money, mainly coins. She just doesn't get it. It'll be some work, but eventually she'll get it. I hope. Ashlyn is in Girl Scouts this year as well. She is a Daisy. I am an assistant leader. And I would just like to vent here quick by saying that the girl scout cookie event this year was really not fun. There. I'm done. She's been enjoying it.
Chloe is growing so fast. We've been spending our Monday mornings by going to ECFE and meeting new friends. She had her preschool screening in February and is all ready to go. We signed her up for next year. She is sure she is going to ride the bus with her siblings...not yet, babe! :) She is very quiet and sweet. She is getting along a lot better with her cousins and she loves coming with me everywhere. She loves her cartoons too. I've been trying to set limits on that, but, she usually wins. She loves doing puzzles and coloring. LOVES stickers. She is also very excited that she gets to go to Sunday School in the fall. She talks about it all the time.
The farm is still going and I and still working at the church. Lincoln's basketball season is coming to an end next weekend and the Gophers...well, they are done and Lincoln is not happy about it. Not to fear though.....March madness is going to be in full swing this week. Get those brackets ready! Lincoln and I will be celebrating 10 years of marriage on June 16th. We think we are going to go somewhere...and that is as far as we have gotten with it. Obviously, it's not easy getting away when you are farmers with 3 children. Especially when those children are in school (because we won't go anywhere until next spring).
I'll leave you with some photos from the past several months........take care!
Halloween: Pumpkin Spice Girl, Luke Skywalker & Princess Leia
She was supposed to be stuffing bulletins for me while at work one day...it got quiet and this is what I found. Chloe was sleeping on the job. She's too cute to fire though.
Ahhhhh, December 11th....the day with all the snow. 20+ inches. It was blowing too much to send the kids out in it so I took an idea from a friend and filled a tote full of snow and let them play in our kitchen. (the idea giver put hers in the bathtub, but I didn't want to go to the basement or the upper level.) This is the night that it got so bad, Lincoln didn't get home and stayed in town at a friend's house.
This is the day after that storm. The first plowing of it. I kept up with the snow out on the deck byu shoveling every couple hours, but I just couldn't keep up with the rest and I didn't know how to start and run the blower so it waited for Lincoln to finally get home.
Ashlyn in her party dress from grandma Sharon. This was at her friend party.
With her Kit American Girl doll.
Her cake.
My Christmas dressed kids. this was actually taken a week before on our way out the door to our carols service at church one Sunday morning. This is the only time they get all dressed for Christmas. Luke got a hair cut shortly after this photo...because that is what made me realize that he really needed one.
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